TIPS COM

So long and thanks for all the t shirts

In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in revenue, and 1 IPO later, Im moving on to my next play. My last day will be in a couple weeks, and for the next few months after that, Im going to relax, travel, and think.

LinkedIn transformed my career. I got the chance to work on amazing projects, including LinkedIn Recruiter, Hackdays, Resume Builder, the LinkedIn Platform, the LinkedIn Engineering Blog, Incubator, Play at LinkedIn, LinkedIn Open Source, and much more. I learned many new technologies, saw amazing talks, and traveled the world. But most importantly, I got to work with an incredible group of people. Relationships matter, and the relationships I built at LinkedIn will be with me for the rest of my career.

Thank you to everyone who made it possible.

I leave you with some photos that capture a few of the highlights of my time at LinkedIn.

We hit 50 million members shortly after I joined (October, 2009)

Holiday Party in San Francisco (December, 2009)

Launched a redesigned LinkedIn Recruiter (February, 2010)

My desk (December, 2010)

Winners of LinkedIns first Innovator Challenge in February, 2011

100 million members (March, 2011)

The IPO (May, 2011)

Launched the LinkedIn Engineering Blog (June, 2011)

Launched Apply with LinkedIn (July, 2011)

Town Hall with President Obama (September, 2011)

Talent Connect Conference in Vegas (October, 2011)

Halloween at the office (October, 2011)

Veterans Hackday (November, 2011)

Project Inversion (November, 2011)

Holiday party at Giants Stadium (December, 2011)

My desk (December, 2011)

Celebrating 150 million members (February, 2012)

Linux at LinkedIn t-shirt (February, 2012)

The LinkedIn gym, complete with bumper plates (March, 2012)

A nice gift from Reid (March, 2012)

A visit to LinkedIns NYC office in the Empire State Building (July, 2012)

The Berlin Hackday (October, 2012)

200 million members (January, 2013)

Behind the scenes (January, 2013)

Toronto Hackday (February, 2013)

Jeff gives out iPads to all employees (February, 2013)

Hackday and Incubator presentation in Latvia (February, 2013)

Matthew models a few of the t-shirts weve collected over the years (April, 2013)

Innovating (April, 2013)

Our new horizontally scalable infrastructure (June, 2013)

Amsterdam Hackday (April, 2013)

Hackers (April, 2013)

New cafe opens and we get amazing breakfast every day (August, 2013)

The lunch aint bad either (August, 2013)

Dreamer Hackathon (November, 2013)

Play t-shirts (August, 2013)

Play keynote at Ping Conference in Budapest (January, 2014)

Eat. Hack. Sleep.